'ህገ መንግስት'?

 

'ህገ መንግስት'?

ያኔ 

መሰረት ሲበጃጅ

ላገር እንዳዲስ ቤት፣

ዳቦ ስም ሲወጣ፣

ለዘመን ህልም ማሸት፤

ምን አሰበን ነበር

ያልነው "ተስማምተናል፣"

ነገድነት ይንገስ

ሰውነት በቅቶናል!

 

አይደለም ወይ ቃሉ

የሰነዱ አንድምታ

ሃገር ሰው አልባ ትሁን

ነገድ ብቻ እውነቷ?

 

ዛሬ 

ታድያ  ደርሰን

"አቤት" "ዋይ" ምንለው፣

በነገድ ፍርድ ቤት

ሰው መቼ ደም አለው?

በቋንቋስ ምህዋር ውስጥ፣

እልቂት መች ፍች አለው?  

ነገ 

የሰነዱን ቁመት፤ ወርድና፤ ጥጋጥግ

በልተን፤ሰንጥቀን፤ህመሙን ሳንፈልግ

ሰውነትን ሳንዋጅ፣ ሰውን ሳንደነግግ

እልቂት ብንረግም በደም ብንበረግግ፣

መሆናችህ አይደል በሃሳዊ ብግነት

ላራጅ ለገፋፊ ቢላ ሚያፈላልግ?

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=የኢትዮጲያ ህገ መንግስት መስረታዊ ተፋልሶዎች በፈጠሩት  መድልዎ ምክንያት በየግዜው ህይወታችውን ለሚያጡ ዜጎች።  

መተከል

 

መተከል

ልክ እንደ ፍዝ ግጥም፣ ቤት መምቻው ሚደግም፣

የዘመኔ መርገም አንዱ ካንዱ አያርም ፣

ሚደፋ ባንድ ቃል፣ሚመታ ባንድ ቃል፤ 

ጅግጅጋ  መተከል

ድሬ       መተከል

አዳማ     መተከል

ሻሸመኔ   መተከል

ማይካድራ   መተከል

መቀሌ       መተከል

ሁመራ        መተከል

መተከል    መተከል

ኮንሶ         መተከል 

አርሲ       መተከል 

መ

ተ

ከ

ል

.......

በግፍ ለተገደሉ ኢትዮጵያውያን ሁሉ። 

Criminal Impunity: Genesis of the TPLF Initiated Conflict in Tigray

 

November 15, 2020, at 11:55 AM, Senait Mebrahtu  twitted( in Amharic), “From now on, if you don’t cease what you are doing, I will release a video of you being abused in prison and put you to shame forever.” This tweet was directed at the renown and award-winning Ethiopian journalist and human rights activist Reeyot Alemu. Reeyot  was a prisoner of conscience for five years under the TPLF led government of Ethiopia. Senait is an active member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a party that was at the helm of power in Ethiopia for twenty-seven years before it was pushed out by popular revolt in 2018. 

The same day, the spokesperson of TPLF, now the party governing the Tigray region, was on a regional TV station  threatening to fire rockets into neighboring country Eritrea and other targets in Ethiopia hours before attacking two airports in Amhara regional state. 

There are a lot of similarities between the two threats: both were evidence of criminality on the very people who pronounced them no matter how oblivious the people were. The obliviousness however, was deep-seated in the sense of entitlement to the criminal impunity these TPLF members are used to. It is this mindset of criminal-impunity that emboldened a former prison torturer to threaten her victims with releasing videos and a representative of regional administration in a sovereign country to admit to being armed with missiles and threaten to target the whole of Eastern Africa.

Torture as a Thing of Pride  

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Both the tweet and the interview glaringly indicate the all too evident reality that most Ethiopians are aware and that foreigners might not know about TPLF: the sense of considering itself above the law and the romancing with crime with impunity.

Senait Mebrahtu is not only a card-carrying member of TPLF but also- just three years ago- was one of the torturers in the many prisons and torture dungeons throughout Ethiopia that TPLF's administration used to cripple, emasculate and shame its opponents. According to the firsthand experience of torture survivors, Senait was one of the most sadistic torturers. The heinous catalog of torture used in the dungeons included sodomizing, amputation, pulling fingernails, putting and urinating on victims. Most survivors say, “pulling genitals with pliers and flogging while being tied to poles was daily occurrences in prison.” Survivors of the torture describe Senait as using sadistic sexual acts to humiliate her victims. Her victims recounted that she insulted, urinated on them while in chains.

It is this sadistic torturer who not only lives free in Tigray and dares to threaten her former victims like journalist Reeyot with releasing videos that her other colleagues have recorded while torturing prisoners to buy their silence today.

 This act might sound unbelievable for foreigners to understand why and how a criminal like Senait dares to come to the public to threaten her victims through her tool of torture and still walk free. It is to this absurdity that the conflict in Tigray boils down to. For the past two years, attempts to bring these criminals to justice was considered as an attack on their ethnicity.  

Criminals Playing Ethnic card to Escape Justice 

The past two years in Ethiopia can be characterized as continuous push and pull between the forces that want the country to go forward and those who are nostalgic about their time of unchecked power over the hundred million people of the country. 

In other countries, such criminals could have been subjected to public uproar and thrown to jail. These former criminals and torturers however mocked the gesture of a gracious nation that forgave their crimes and gave them a second chance. But in Tigray, where many of these criminals are hiding, rather than opening a way to a new beginning, a new form of political freedom, they  refashioned themselves as 'untouchable and holy,' and thus critiquing or opposing them amounted to  offending ethnic pride.  

Two years ago, when the nation's top police issued arrest warrants for a few of these criminals now hiding in Mekelle, the regional police arrested the federal police who went there to serve the warrant. TPLF even considered this act of the Federal Government seeking justice for the thousands of victims in the torture dungeons as an attack on the Tigray ethnicity. This bizarre claim is like Nazi generals wanted for the Nuremberg Trials claiming that they were being attacked because they were German. These criminals who used power for their own self-interest forgetting Tigray, now try to hide under ethnic garbs when justice is eminent. Today the former Ethiopia Intelligence chief a member of the TPLF central committee, who was overseeing most of the extrajudicial killings and atrocities like the ones Senait is bragging about, is supposed to be worthy of defending  because of his ethnicity. 

Torturers as Heroes 

In other countries, such criminals would either be in prison or try to hide from being noticed but in Ethiopia, criminals hide behind their ethnicity which absolves themselves of justice and even from admitting their crimes. The version of ethnic politics, which I call ethnic-apartheid, in the country, allows criminals to hide from justice in broad daylight and even engage in brazen acts of threatening their former victims with videos they recorded while torturing them. It is like assuming Nazi officers threatening Auschwitz survivors by releasing the video of their torture to silence them. Any Nazi would never dare brag about their crimes because the eyes of justice would hunt them down. But in Ethiopia, the torturers of three years ago walk free and even threaten their victims while being celebrated as heroes. An example of lionizing criminals was the ‘We are Getachew Assefa’ campaign by TPLF youth defending the former head of intelligence wanted by the federal government for crimes against humanity. Soaked in the pool of criminal impunity, these former leadership of TPLF today threaten the country with missiles and rocket attacks adding salt to the wounds of the country. 

At the core of the conflict in Tigray, today is defending the criminal impunity of people (the likes of Senait and Getachew Reda.) People who assume themselves not only above the law of the land but who expect that the world should forget the criminal, torturous, and repressive system they used to represent just three years ago. People who consider their fight for power to grant them a seat in the central government which is but seeking justice. 

Romancing Terrorism with a call for Negotiations 

What the world knows from news headlines about the conflict in Tigray could just be that a renegade regional administration had ambushed the Northerner Command of the country, stole armaments, threatened to hit the capital and neighboring countries with missiles, and did. They might find it bizarre to understand how a political party could ambush a national army and threaten to wreak havoc by hitting the capital with missiles unless it is allowed back into the helm of power from which it was pushed with popular revolt. But all Ethiopians know all to well this criminal impunity of TPLF for 27 years.

What the world knows from news headlines could be that the core TPLF leadership had no remorse about the atrocities they have orchestrated for the 27 years they were in power and want to come back to power by labeling the government as illegitimate and holding sham regional elections. But all Ethiopians know that TPLF mafia leaders, like Senait, are not bothered by how bad they had treated the country in the past up until three years ago but the fact that they should be allowed a seat in the center with criminal impunity. 

What the world knows from news headlines could be that the core TPLF had organized a killing squad called Samri and slaughtered, bludgeoned, hanged, burned, hatched, and beheaded more than 600 ethnic Amharas and what they called ‘Welkaite’ in MaiKadra. However, Ethiopians know TPLF had been sponsoring more killings, ethnic cleansing for the sake of threatening its way back to central power in Ethiopia. 

What the world knows from news headlines could be the distorted reality of the truth through the TPLF digital cadres and paid agents around the world. However, Ethiopians know what a treasonous terrorist group Mafia group TPLF is.  

What the world knows from news headlines could be the call for negotiation as if the two sides were equal. However, all Ethiopians know that negotiation with terrorists who did not  honor the very forgiving hand of the country would amount to stealing peace from the future of East Africa.

Freedom to Tigray from the TPLF mafia rule!

 By Tariku Abas Etenesh